1670 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

Other

• Sir Richard Fanshawe, translated, Querer por solo querer: To love ony for love sake, translated from Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza^[1]
• Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, The Remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke^[1]
• Michael Wigglesworth, Meat Out of the Eater, English Colonial American^[2]

Other

• Francisco de Quevedo, Las tres Musas últimas castellanas ("The last three Muses Castilian"), posthumous, edited by the author's nephew, Pedro Alderete

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Mohammed Awzal (died 1748), Moroccan religious Berber poet
• Kavi Samrat Upendra Bhanja born either 1670 or 1688 (died 1740), poet of Oriya Literature and awarded the title "Kavi-Samrata" - "The Emperor of the Poets"
• William Congreve (died 1729), English playwright and poet
• Sarah Fyge Egerton (died 1723), English
• Bernard Mandeville (died 1733), English philosopher, political economist, poet and satirist
• Aogán Ó Rathaille (died 1728), Irish poet, creator of the Aisling poem
• Thomas Yalden (died 1736), English poet and translator

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (born 1589), French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and original member of the Académie française
• Petru Fudduni (born 1600), Italian poet who wrote predominantly in Sicilian
• Jacob Westerbaen (born 1599), Dutch poet
• Cheng Zhengkui (born 1604), Chinese landscape painter and poet

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

Notes